Someone Made A Fake Jay-Z Samsung App That Showed Anti-Obama Messages On July 4

Jay-Z just released his newest album — Magna Carta Holy Grail —
for free via an official app only for some owners of Samsung's
Galaxy range of phones.

The app's popularity, along with its exclusivity status, has
quickly spawned unofficial cloned versions of the app.

And while the apps were initially believed to just be shameless
copies — BBC News has
discovered that the cloned apps contain anti-government
images that went live on July 4th.

Instead of Jay-Z's album art, app users were met with pictures of
Obama wearing headphones, his portrait below the slogan, "Yes we
scan."

The pictures are believed to be a hacktivist protest against the
recently revealed NSA intelligence program, PRISM. Code within
the app's infrastructure allowed a timer to release the images
only once it was July 4th.

Samsung users who downloaded the official app through the Google
Play store do not have to worry about their app being affected.
This "hacked" app was only available if you downloaded it to your
phone from a separate website. It's always best to only download
Android apps from trusted sources like the Google Play store or
Amazon Appstore.